About The Oldwick Volunteer Fire Company

The Oldwick Fire Company was founded in 1938 and is an all-volunteer company comprised of your neighbors. Sons serve alongside their fathers, and we have welcomed a third generation to our proud heritage of firefighting. The background and age of our volunteers is varied, but we all share a common bond in the desire to serve and protect our community.
The firehouse is located just south of the village of Oldwick, at the cross roads of Route 517 and Route 523, in Tewksbury Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Our highly trained company of approximately thirty-five volunteers responds to emergencies both within Tewksbury Township and to the surrounding townships as a mutual aid force. We respond to structure, vehicle and brush fires, accidents, hazardous material events, floods and rescue situations. Our response area includes a section of heavily travelled Interstate 78. The company is also a member of the Hunterdon County Tender Task Force and Foam Task Force. The company responds with five pieces of apparatus: an engine, a pumper/tender, a tactical, a brush and a chief vehicle. To honor our history, we have retained an antique engine.
The Oldwick Fire Company responds to over 100 calls per year in addition to conducting routine training both in-house and with the mutual aid forces.

The NY Jets are supporting the Oldwick Fire Company Gala fundraising activities. While the Gala is March 24 2018, the Jets are kindly donating a large portion of the ticket sale to the Oldwick Fire Company Gala. Please follow the website to participate and support both the Jets and your fire company. The entire membership thanks both the Jets and our supporters.

Sunday, November 5, 2017, marks the end of Daylight Saving Time — a twice-a-year occurrence that we, where we forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall. To remember, think “springing forward” and “falling back.” The change on Nov. 5 this year will occur at 2 a.m.
Benjamin Franklin proposed the notion of making better use of the day’s light while visiting in Paris in 1784 to “encourage the economy of using sunshine instead of candles”. Therefore, the concept of saving daylight is actually rooted in candle wax, not electricity. It’s a myth that the concept was to benefit farmers as they were some of the most outspoken opponents of the law in the U.S., believing that it would disrupt their farming practices.
Today, it is also a good reminder to change batteries in life saving smoke detectors.

The fire extinguishers can become clogged or require excessive force to discharge and can fail to activate during a fire emergency. In addition, the nozzle can detach with enough force to pose an impact hazard.
Kidde toll-free at 855-271-0773 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday, or online at www.kidde.com and click on “Product Safety Recall” for more information.

Members of the Oldwick Fire Company practice vehicle extrication techniques at the September drill. The drill included size up, response vehicle positioning, traffic awareness, victim vehicle stabilization, lighting techniques, in addition to victim extrication techniques. Each member practiced with different tools and responsible positions.

From the entire membership of the Oldwick Fire Company, thank you to all that stopped while we manned Route 517 at the cross roads. The volunteer members thhank you for your generosity, which enables us to maintain our vehicles, gear and firefighting supplies.

On September 25, 2017, the Oldwick fire company and mutual aid companies, responded to a propane fire on Hell Mountain in Tewksbury. The fire was quickly extinguished. Unfortunately a member of the household was badly burned and was lifted by NJ State Police helicopter for treatment. Happily the individual was seen two weeks later in ‘downtown’ Oldwick, we wish a speedy recovery

Saturday night, March 24, 2018 at the Oldwick Fire House, the fire company will celebrate 80 years of service to Tewksbury. Dinner, dancing and live music will commence. Its been 5 years since our last gala, see you there!